Tuesday 11 December 2012

Christmas Crafts in a Cafe

Inspired by this blog (via Pinterest) and with a couple of hours to kill with the Zeds between picking Z1 up from school and going to a late afternoon meeting for work, I though a little snipping of coffee filters in a cafe would be perfect to pass the time.
I prepared a few examples the night before, pre-folded a few coffee filters (the very coffee filters that I nearly misbought in Walmart back in November ) and remembered to put a Z1-friendly scissors in my bag. Organised, I was.
Combining cake, crafts, crumbs and coffee in a cafe called Coffee Culture with children was a little chaotic (and alliterative). See.
snowflake, coffee filter, Christmas craft, Christmas decoration, scissors, zebra dress
Attempted snipping, our
favourite one, cake remnants,
and coloured in snowflake 
Hmm...perhaps you can't quite see the chaos there but I had to prevent Z2 from knocking over my ridiculous butterscotch caramel (or something like that) latte and from sitting on the cake and from snipping things whenever the scissors was put down for a moment. I also had to allay the wrath of Z1 when I was pleased with a snowflake that I made and she was angered that it was nicer than the one we collaborated on. I convinced her that my one was inspired by her so she could take credit. Phew.

All that and Z1 decided that she couldn't do it. I am not sure why as she does cutting out quite well, usually. It may have been that she was very tired - I handed over two rather cranky, tired Zeds when the time came for me to skedaddle to my meeting.

She did like the idea, though, and decided she would join in by colouring the filters before I cut them. The fact that the only colouring implement we had to hand was a blue biro did not put her off. So here they are - cut by me and one coloured by her. The nice thing about this is that the more I did, the more I wanted to do as I figured out what looked pretty. And coffee filters come in packs of hundreds. And we don't even have a coffee machine to use them up. I may just wallpaper the house with snowflakes.
coffee filter snowflakes, Christmas craft, paper snowflakes, craft, snowflake decorations, Christmas decorations
Coffee filter snowflakes

Credit where credit is due: There are a lot of versions of this kicking about the internet but I found this via Pinterest from Heart of Wisdom (direct link to blog post up above in my post)

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    1. Yes, they may have sneaked into someone else's booth-style table while I was gathering up coats and paper-snippings but it seemed to be taken well so I didn't have to fishwife!

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